Unidentified

Comments & ID Thoughts

Does anyone know what this is? I've never seen a spider like this in all my years in Maine. It was photographed at night, making a web outside the kitchen window, where I assume the light was attracting the last of the autumn bugs outside. I couldn't see any distinct shape to the web, and it (and he/she) was gone the next night and never seen again. The body suggests some kind of orb weaver, but the coloring and the hourglass are confusing my searches. Any ideas?

• Submitted by: 
  
  jesscail
• Submitted: Oct 22, 2018
• Photographed: Oct 6, 2018
• Spider: Unidentified
• Location: Augusta, Maine, United States
• Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
• Found in web?: Yes
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